hey there it's Kaeleigh in this lesson we're going to learn how to use and read
a measuring cup in the United States recipes have the amount of ingredients
needed in units of cups like this smoothie recipe it calls for one cup
blueberries one banana a half cup of ice 3/4 cup of milk and a half cup of water
that means it is helpful to know how to measure in cups there are two types of
measuring cups that you may have seen before this one here is mainly used for
measuring liquids like water or milk and these ones are mainly used for measuring
dry foods like rice or flour let's start with the dry measuring cups first dry
measuring cups often come in a set of four different sizes the smallest one is
a quarter cup this one is a third of a cup this one is half a cup and the big
one is one whole cup from what we know about fractions one whole cup is equal
to four quarter cups and one cup is equal to three thirds of a cup and one
cup is equal to two halves of a cup so for this recipe we will use our whole
cup for blueberries and our half cup for the ice since these are both dry
ingredients now let's look at our liquid measuring cup notice on this measuring
cup there are a lot of markers these ones down the middle are in another unit
called ounces or oz for short we can ignore these for now
notice over here we see some of the measurements that we had on our dry
measuring cups we have one whole cup a half cup and a quarter cup and over on
this side we have the third cup mark this cup has a few extras as well the
3/4 cup mark and the 2/3 cup mark let's practice reading a measuring cup
this one has a whole cup of water now what about this one we always make sure
to bring our eyes down to the level of the water or liquid because we want to
measure this front level of the water and not this back one here so this one
is 1/3 of a cup of water now let's take a look at these ones
remember we come to a level with the liquid and we measure from the front
line or the liquid that is touching the glass on the side we are closest to so
this one is a quarter cup of rice pudding and this one here is
three-quarters of a cup of chocolate milk so for my smoothie recipe I can use
my liquid measuring cup to measure my milk to be right here at the 3/4 cup
mark and when I measure my water it will come all the way to the half cup mark
right here now you know how to read and use measuring cups for liquids and dry
foods practice what you've learned by doing the online games and quizzes have
fun and remember to always be clever